and secondly, we have flat-lining economy. and this will be the question of the next two years, declining living standards as a result. but, of course, there is one group for whom the good times or come this april. mr. speaker, mr. speaker, can he just reminded us what the thinking was when he decided to provide an average tax cut of 100,000 pounds for everyone earning over 1 million pounds in this country? >> he should be familiar with the figures. when he put the top rate of tax up to 50p, millionaires paid 7 billion pounds less in tax. that is what happened under his plan. but i'll tell hi them what is gg to happen in april. every single taxpayer in this country, all 24 million of them, will see a tax cut as we raise the personal allowance. as we get close to the goals that we have of being able to earn 10,000 pounds, without paying any income tax at all. and, of course, the biggest tax cut has been for those hard-working people on minimum wage going out to work day after day who have seen their income tax bill cut in half.